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...choose a Republican for Governor and to discuss the new deal. If Mr. Macy had so desired, he could have regarded this slightly unusual procedure as an attempt to cooperate, but it was then he took to hysterics and became a mad man. His invective against James Wadsworth, whom the Committee planned to choose, was counteracted by a lucky break. The same morning the Committee announced that they wanted Robert Moses, the park commissioner who designed Jones Beach and the Northern State Parkway and an ardent anti-new dealer as their candidate. Young and forceful, Mr. Moses possessed none...
James Wolcott Wadsworth, well-born Republican conservative who opposed Al Smith in the New York Legislature, served twelve years as a U. S. Senator, started his political career all over again in the House last year and is today probably the most notable member of his party in that chamber...
Incitement. Political enmity and selfish pique were two motives which New Dealers quickly read into ALL. They justly pointed out that Messrs. Davis, Shouse and Smith had opposed the nomination of Franklin Roosevelt at Chicago, that Mr. Wadsworth hopes to win the Republican presidential nomination in 1936. What some New Dealers did not point out was that no ordinary political cause could bring such diverse gentlemen together...
...living "children and children's children'' of Hameln, Germany, went invitations to return for a summer-long observance of the 650th anniversary of the child exodus led by the Pied Piper. On June 26 a monument to the Piper will be unveiled and dedicated. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha of the Algonquian Ojibwas ceased to be a legend, was proved a person when the Smithsonian Institution announced that, an Iroquois, he lived between 1550 and 1600, was a cannibal by tribal custom...
...second appeal to Seniors for contributions to the Harvard Fund was mailed from Cambridge yesterday by Theodore Chase '34, class agent. According to a statement from the Fund headquarters in Wadsworth House last night, large contributions are not being solicited, but the primary aim is to enroll a large number of donors...